The world is ever-changing and we have to protect our kids!
If you've followed me over the last year, you will know that I did not grow up in the USA. I grew up in the land of Royals. United Kingdom. Growing up the only time that I saw guns was when you visited Buckingham Palace or a royal resident guarded by the Queen's guards. In case you don't know The Queen's Guard and Queen's Life Guard (called King's Guard and King's Life Guard when the reigning monarch is male) are the names given to contingents of infantry and cavalry soldiers charged with guarding the official royal residences in the United Kingdom. So coming to the USA, when I would visit friends and friends of friends where they would holster a gun opening, clean a gun openly, use a gun openly among other things was an adjustment. I'll be honest, for a long time, every time I would walk past a police officer I would be filled with fear. I recognized that they held the power of life and death on their hips and that frightened me.
We have an obligation as a nation to protect our kids
There seems to be no value placed on human life. In a blink of an eye, and the point of a gun a life can be gone and no one seems to care enough to make the change that is necessary. I just don't understand it. Yes, we have a constitutional right to bear arms. But we also have a constitutional right to build a truly united state. Honestly, if you have a gun for so-called protection, a gun for fun, a gun for selfish reasons, ask yourself, is your right to bare arms more important that the lives of our children. Your own child/(ren). Some people may say the two are not related. But I truly believe they are, it's the reason the laws have not been changed to enact the necessary changes to protect our kids
Just arm the teachers
Well, Randall Davidson just lets you know that teachers can be mentally ill too. He barricaded himself inside a classroom at a high school in northwest Georgia Wednesday and fired a shot. Luckily he did not seem intent on harming anyone just really himself. But he had had run-ins with the law before too. So you want to give someone like that a gun to protect our kids. I think not. If that's the case, I dare you to put your child in a classroom with a teacher like that, armed and ready. We are being forced to protect our kids by homeschooling them (something I am seriously considering).
I made the point earlier that I was fearful of guns because innocent bystanders can be caught in the crossfire. So even if there are armed personnel present in events such as the most recent Florida Shooting (Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School), you could incur more fatalities in the cross hears. Worse yet they may freeze and do nothing as seen with the armed deputies that did nothing.
Long and short of this, we have to come to the table and all make sacrifices in order to get common sense laws if it just saves one young life.
Let's also protect our kids online.
Here are some tips to be able to do just that.
